[ecrea] 6th International Comedy Conference cfp

Our theme for this year's conference is 'Drawing The Line and details 
are as follows

*_Sixth International Comedy Conference//_*

*_Drawing The Line - Comics, Comedy & Comics_*

*_University of Salford Manchester and Manchester Metropolitan University_*

*May 31^st & June 1^st 2012*

This year conference would like to push the boundaries a bit and take on 
board papers that deal with comedy and humour from a variety of sources 
not just stage and screen. Comics can have two meanings - comedians and 
drawn images - both make us laugh but often in differenct ways. Both 
sets of ‘comics’ can employ a variety of techniques to make us laugh. 
Some comics have become films - /Asterix/, /Popeye/, /Fritz The Cat/. 
Some comics have been filmed and made into comcs, Laurel and Hardy, 
Frank Randle, Beryl Reid, along with many others had regular strips in 
/Film Fun/. ‘Drawing The Line’ calls forth for papers on these and any 
other topic concerned with comedy and humour, be it film, TV, cartoon or 
literature.

Topics for papers might include

Silent Comedy and slapstick - links to newspaper cartoons

Dennis The Menace

Robert Crumb /American Splendour - Biopics of cartoonists

The changing face of satire - Lampoon to cartoon to caricature - 
Spitting Image

We invite abstracts of no more than 200 words plus a brief biog to -

David James (d.james /at/ mmu.ac.uk) <mailto:(d.james /at/ mmu.ac.uk)> and CP Lee 
(c.lee /at/ salford.ac.uk) <mailto:(c.lee /at/ salford.ac.uk)>

Submission date - January 31^st 2012